The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-18
THE RAG BAG.
Dolly and Will Talk About Bro
ken Vows and High
Hats.


just such dinner as Will likes, ten
der baked meats with plenty of veg
etables, etc.-''NOw what do you
think about a woman who would bring
herself into such public notoriety as
has this one spoken of in connection
with certain professional gentleman
of this city, Will gave a certain
little sniff as he said "bring herself
into notoriety," which put me on my
metal at once and as he unrOlled his
napkin, | said: willie, are you an
honorable man p "Why Dolly" he
answered in surprise, 81 believe So
at least | try to keep my word in all
things and strive to do to others as l
would have them do to me, but /
thought you knew that without ask
ing"
eyes; we'll Willie, suppose you had
in those old happy days when you
came wooing me and left no stone I'M
turned to gain my approval-aye and
my love, suppose [ say that you had
gone away from me for a time an d
while still continuing to tell me that
you loved me had calmly decided to
cast my love aside and had broken
every vow, made, mind Willie, not
alone in my presence, but in the pres
of God and the angels, would you
still deserve to claim the name of an
honorable man ?"
ooh / dunno, | suppose it is really
better for a man to discover that his
love has undergone change and say
so before marriage, than to wait until
after the knot has been irrevOkably
tied, eh Dollie?" answered Will.
'"The question does not hinge on that
view of the matter WILL" l said. 81
asked you if a man could lay claim to
the title of being an honora-
bic man under the circum-
stances mentioned and prove
it by any recognized creed either
in the life of Christ or in one of his
followers? | did not ask you to give
me your opinion according to the
verdict of little two by nine lawyer,
or an established church, whose min
lister and members believe it to be to
the church's interest to shield a man
who has made himself numerously
useful to it and to them, / ask you as
a man, taking Christ as an example,
do you believe that an honorable man
would allow the woman he had vowed
to love and had compromised by his
to suffer the pain and obli-
guy, for obliquy there is in the eyes of
a hurried world no matter how much
the fact may be CLOSED Over-of his
desertion ?" "Well," said Will, NOV
ing around on his chair in an uneasy
fashion and brushing an imaginary
crumb from his coat sleeve, putting
the matter in the light of real Chris
tan principle, Dolly, an honorable
man should never break his vows-in
fact he couldn't" Certainly not, !"
/ said, "and then WHAT" "Why,
you see," answered Will, sin the
case mentioned, it merely seems
to have been a misunderstanding.
The man says there was no time set
for the wedding day, although he adj
mits that when he babe the young
lady goodbye, it was understood that
the wedding would take place duriag
the holidays. eyes" said, but
Will, do you believe that an under
standing could have been arrived at
the time for the marriage,
without definite speech on the subject
between the people who loved each
other and were engaged, remember
your own affair and tell me the truth.
''Oh, as to my affair with you DOllie,
| dimly remember that you coaxed
me very hard to name an early day
AMI | resisted just to have you coax
me, and Will looked over the top of
his cup at me with teasing expires
sion In his eyes that convinced me
that he was trying to beg the entiIe
question, man like. / laughed a lit
lie, however, and then said, "Well.
Judging from results, you are not sor-
v you finally yielded to my coaxing,
out seriously the question of right in
his matter is one that interests me
md one which you should give an opin-
on upon without any further lodging.
'Will looked at me mo-
nent and then he said ODDLY
/ believe from the innermost re-
'esses of my heart that God did not
make separate laws as the controlling
of men and women. / be-
ieve that when man of proper age
as was the csse of the man of
whom we are speaking, deliberately
Isurps the time and attention of a
who leads her on by loving
words and tender caresses to that
1int wheIe size promises for all time